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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.

Dallas Willard

Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Hard People Right World
We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Goodness Kind People Thinking
The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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Different Driver Heart Ignition Machine Ourselves Spirit
Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Earn Effort Grace
Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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God Human Rebel Spiritual Understand Wrong
If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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Access Allow Bondage Evil Goodness Mindset
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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Character Children Final
Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Human Life Problem Solution
When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Devotion Discipline God
Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Brilliant One Liner
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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Call Death Lose Time World
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Easy Myself Obedience Way
The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.

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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.

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